Hello again and thanks for the continued support,

I am building a CGI script to go online, and it is slow, so I used a profiler to find how to make it better. The problem is, I don't know what I could do...

As you'll see, CGI::AUTOLOAD takes the most time (over half)... What does this mean? Is it something I can control?

Secondly is the File::Find. I tried readdir, but it produced similar results. In the works is eliminating the need to loop through files (by making one large file), I hope this will make it more efficient.

Here is part of the output (I doubt you guys need the whole thing) from one test by Devel::Profile :

time elapsed (wall):   27.9298
time running program:  27.9106  (99.93%)
time profiling (est.): 0.0192  (0.07%)
number of calls:       4170

%Time    Sec.     #calls   sec/call  F  name
73.95   20.6410        7   2.948712     CGI::AUTOLOAD
25.48    7.1128     3626   0.001962     <anon>:...Perl/5.10.0/File/Fin
+d.pm:717
 0.27    0.0746        1   0.074612     File::Find::_find_dir
 0.08    0.0216        1   0.021615     <anon>:...bles/mytestsearch201
+1.cgi:25
 0.05    0.0142        7   0.002028     CGI::_compile
 0.05    0.0131        0   0.013137  *  <other>
 0.04    0.0113        1   0.011286     <anon>:...y/Perl/5.10.0/CGI/Fa
+st.pm:18
 0.01    0.0029        1   0.002868     <anon>:...ibrary/Perl/5.10.0/C
+GI.pm:27
 0.01    0.0025       71   0.000035     main::dependency_checks
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And I tried using Devel::FastProf, which gave me this output (-p was used)(Again, only a portion):

/System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CGI.pm:867 22.53873 1: [at line 10 inside 
+eval] ???
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mytestsearch2011.cgi:139 7.02436 11
+7492: next unless ($sentblock =~ /\b$verbform\b/i); ##Ensure the sent
+ence contains the searchkey
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mytestsearch2011.cgi:123 0.86092 51
+9: while (my $sentblock = <FILE>) 
/System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/File/Find.pm:895 0.61021 150: @filenames =
+ readdir DIR;
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mytestsearch2011.cgi:134 0.22259 29
+373: $sentence =~ s/, / /g;
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mytestsearch2011.cgi:131 0.08909 30
+413: next unless ($sentblock =~ /\[sent. (\d+) len. \d+\]: \[(.+)\]/)
+; ##Remember, talking about the whole block here
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mytestsearch2011.cgi:126 0.05230 30
+413: if ( $sentblock =~ /file:\s(\S+)\.txt/) ##Could change to get ju
+st chpt number/word
/System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/File/Find.pm:940 0.03863 3625: $sub_nlink 
+= (lstat ($no_chdir ? $dir_pref . $FN : $FN))[3];
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mytestsearch2011.cgi:27 0.03166 1: 
+require '/Users/jon/Desktop/stanford-postagger-full-2011-04-20/verbTe
+nseChanger.pl';
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mytestsearch2011.cgi:132 0.03129 29
+373: $sentencenumber = $1; ## $1 refers to first set of paranthesis i
+n the last match
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Hope you can help.

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